There are many conditions it is justified to break the law. one of the major reason would be if the law is unjust or immoral. There are many other conditions that can be justified for breaking the law. example - life and death situations or in case of self defense. example if some people are chasing you to hurt or even kill you and you try to get away by breaking into someone's car or break into someone house to hide maybe able to say justify. your intention are to save yourself, not to to harm the owner of the car or the owner of the house. These things rarely happen. what majorly happen are the unjust laws. in my opinion unjust laws are law that discriminated on a group of people, treat a group differently than the other and so on. there are many unjust laws in the United States that can have legitimate uses of civil disobedience. Example - there are 7 states in the US that do not allow atheists to run for public office. Just because they do not believe in super natural beings, they are treated lesser than others and treated unfairly. those kind of law can be define as unjust law and can be uses on civil disobedience. women in Saudi Arabia are not allow to drive. these are unjust law. I have to agree with St.Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all" because if it is unjust and not make it equal for everyone or not treating everyone equally, then what is the point of having that law?
self-defense is not a moral argument that the law should be changed, so not related to civil disobedience. Some nice examples here though!
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